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  • Absolute Power Erupts (Maureen Dowd Alert!)

    11/20/2004 5:07:39 PM PST · by wagglebee · 123 replies · 4,796+ views
    New York Times ^ | 11/21/04 | Maureen Dowd
    They're fragile and frazzled, depressed and self-doubting. Trapped in their blue bell jar, drowning in unfulfilled dreams, Democrats are the "Desperate Housewives" of politics. The image of Republicans as the Daddy party and Democrats as the Mommy party came roaring back in 2004, with a chesty President Bush and Dick Cheney prevailing by making the case that they could protect America from vicious terrorists and uxorious gays better than the Brahmin they painted as a sissy. In politics, as on TV, political correctness is out and retro is in. Hillary's bid to be president suddenly appears more wobbly, and the...